AI · TechCrunch AI · Oct 21, 2026
Blacksmith, a platform that lets companies build and test AI code more effectively, just announced a $66 million Series C round led by Sequoia that values the company at $1 billion.
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AI · TechCrunch AI · Oct 21, 2026
More than 50% of managers say they're finding it harder to evaluate employees' work after adopting AI, according to a new survey.
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AI · TechCrunch AI · Oct 20, 2026
The proposed policy seems to offer protections against AI run amok but actually forbids federal agencies from blocking a model's release without the permission of a judge.
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AI · TechCrunch AI · Oct 20, 2026
Before you share the Netflix documentary "AI Gone Rogue" take note. Clem Delangue, Hugging Face's co-founder who is featured in the film, says it went "full doomer mode" and isn't accurate.
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AI · TechCrunch AI · Oct 20, 2026
Anthropic is reportedly struggling to secure enough compute from cloud providers that increasingly view it as a competitor, even as its infrastructure spending balloons ahead of a planned November IPO.
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AI · TechCrunch AI · Oct 20, 2026
SpaceX hit profitably in the third-quarter, with net income of $4.4 billion. AI was the engine.
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AI · TechCrunch AI · Oct 20, 2026
OpenAI says it's adding Orchestra's team and technology to work on Rosalind, its AI model for life sciences research, and to its related Rosalind Workbench tool, a harness that aims to help researchers plan experiments and analyze results.
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AI · TechCrunch AI · Oct 20, 2026
Google has joined Amazon in releasing a developer tool that makes it easy for PyTorch users to move their apps off Nvidia GPUs.
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AI · TechCrunch AI · Oct 20, 2026
The company says the feature is designed for situations where users might be discussing something personal or planning a surprise and want to keep those conversations private when handing their device to friends or family to show them some…
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AI · TechCrunch AI · Oct 20, 2026
The former Google CEO owns about 1% stake in the leading AI lab, Bloomberg reported.
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AI · TechCrunch AI · Oct 20, 2026
Meta's AI companion Muse has surpassed 10 million U.S. downloads in its first 40 days, joining an exclusive group of apps that includes Threads. New data also shows Muse is retaining users at higher rates than its AI rivals.
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AI · TechCrunch AI · Oct 20, 2026
It’s the moment everyone is waiting for — the ChatGPT moment for robotics, Amulya Vishwanath explained to TechCrunch’s Equity.
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